PASSING DREAMS
Palestine, Sweden, France, Saudi Arabia I 2024 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 85 min
SYNOPSIS
Sami, a young 12 years old boy, takes us on an exciting adventure that spans an entire day and night in the company of his uncle, and the uncle’s daughter, who is two years older than him, in search of a missing bird: a homing pigeon that Sami believes has flown back to its home of origin.
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CAST & CREDITS
Director: Rashid Masharawi
Writer: Rashid Masharawi
Cast: Ashraf Barhom, Adel Abu Ayyash, Emilia Al Massou
Dop: Duraid Munajim
Producer: Rashid Masharawi, Laura Nikolov, Basel Mawlawi, Faysal Baltyor
RASHID MASHARAWI
Rashid Masharawi is a self-taught filmmaker born and raised in refugee camp, Gaza Strip. He is one of the first Palestinian director who had shoot in the occupied territories. All his movies since his first feature Curfew (1990) and then Haifa (1996) which was the first Palestinian movie officially selected in Cannes, receive regular international selections, awards and broadcasting. They reflect with irony the daily Palestinian life and are studied in many universities.
In 1996 he founded the Cinema Production and Distribution Center to develop a Palestinian cinematographic reflection (workshop, training, kids festival and mobile cinema). Many Palestinian filmmakers who have an international career, have attended this institution.
He still pursues this goal by training himself new generations of directors and never stops to create, even during corona’s lockdowns, by filming neighbours in “Diary of Gabrielle Street”. He is currently post-producing his new feature films “Passing Dreams”.